**Easy Perspective Drafting (Digital) - Lazy Nezumi — Transcript & Summary | SozAI** Source: https://sozai.app/transcript/easy-perspective-drafting-digital-lazy-nezumi/ Joe Hogan Art demonstrates how to use the Lazy Nezumi plugin for precise digital perspective drafting in Photoshop and other art programs. ## Key Takeaways - Lazy Nezumi significantly improves precision in digital perspective drafting. - The plugin supports multiple perspective types including two-point, three-point, and isometric. - It is a helpful drafting tool but should not replace learning fundamental perspective skills. - Ideal for quickly creating complex scenes like cityscapes with correct perspective. - Some technical quirks exist, such as crosshair alignment issues during zooming. ## What the video covers - Introduction to Lazy Nezumi, a plugin for Photoshop and other art programs that enhances drawing precision. - Lazy Nezumi smooths brush strokes, making them almost vector-like, similar to Adobe Illustrator. - Focus on the perspective drafting features, especially two-point and three-point perspective. - Demonstrates setting horizon lines and vanishing points for accurate perspective grids. - Shows how the plugin automatically draws lines in correct perspective directions. - Discusses limitations such as crosshair misalignment when zooming in Photoshop. - Highlights the plugin's usefulness for quick cityscape and architectural drafting. - Mentions additional perspective modes like one-point and isometric perspectives. - Emphasizes that the tool is for drafting, not final rendering, and encourages learning traditional perspective principles first. - Expresses enthusiasm about the plugin's capabilities and potential for speeding up the creative process. ## Chapters 1. 00:00 Introduction to Lazy Nezumi Plugin 2. 01:14 Brush Smoothing and Vector-like Precision 3. 02:44 Adjusting Perspective Lines and Horizon 4. 03:49 Automatic Perspective Line Drawing 5. 05:18 Enthusiasm and Use Cases for Cityscapes 6. 06:56 Two-point and Three-point Perspective Explained 7. 08:26 Additional Perspective Modes and Features 8. 10:14 Final Thoughts and Advice on Using Lazy Nezumi Answers ## Questions about this video What is Lazy Nezumi and which programs does it support? Lazy Nezumi is a plugin designed primarily for Photoshop but compatible with other art programs. It enhances drawing precision and offers tools for perspective drafting. Can Lazy Nezumi help beginners learn perspective drawing? While Lazy Nezumi can assist with perspective drafting, it is recommended that users first learn the basic principles of perspective to fully benefit from the tool. What types of perspective can be drafted using Lazy Nezumi? Lazy Nezumi supports two-point, three-point, and isometric perspective drafting, allowing artists to create accurate grids and scenes quickly. ## Full Transcript — Download SRT & Markdown 00:00 Speaker A Look at this. This is black magic nonsense. Hello Facebook, YouTube, DeviantArt, and Twitter, wherever you're joining me from. Thank you for tuning in today. I really wanted to show you something pretty cool that my friend Chris D actually brought to my attention recently. It's this thing called Lazy Nezumi, and what that is is a plugin for a lot of art programs including Photoshop. I believe it's specifically designed for Photoshop, but you can use it with other programs. 00:15 Speaker A Chris D actually brought to my attention recently it's this thing called lazy Nezumi and what that is is a plugin for a lot of art programs including Photoshop and I believe it's specifically designed for Photoshop but you can use it with other programs but 00:32 Speaker A Um, you know, this isn't sponsored or anything like that, but this is a tool that I found to be very, very helpful for creating perspective scenes. So, you know, it has a lot of uses. I'll pull it up right now. What's really neat about it, there's a ton of different things you can do with it. Ignore that. Basically, what you can do is, for the most part, I feel like what most people seem to use it for is to, yes, now it's on. So when it's not turned on and we use the brush tool, we get these like crazy little artifacts or whatever, but when we turn it on, it gets very, very smooth and very precise. It's almost like Adobe Illustrator. It's almost, it's borderline vector. Nobody treats things, so it's really, really cool. But that's not what I want to talk to you about today. I want to talk about the perspective stuff that we have going on here. Where is it now? Look like a doofus. Here we go. Perfect. This perspective part of the plugin is really awesome about it. It's perfect for drafting perspective scenes. Now, keep in mind, this is not something that is gonna help you if you don't already have a—I mean, okay, let me backtrack. It can help you kind of learn a little bit about perspective, but if you don't already know the basic principles of it, this might not help you out too much. So this specific one that I'm going to show you is two-point and three-point perspective drafting. The downside to this is if you, for example, let's—I'm gonna turn this off real quick. Let's create—here's where our horizon line is gonna be, a slightly darker blue. So let's create the horizon line. Already there. And so you put this center, I guess crosshair is the best way to describe it, and then you can adjust where your horizon lines are gonna be. 00:43 Speaker A right now what's really neat about it there's a ton of different things you can do with it ignore that and basically what you can do is for the most part I feel like what most people seem to use 00:56 Speaker A I'm adjusting this red line over here to go a little further away and the green line to be a little bit closer. I don't know why it's doing this. I don't know if it's because we're just recording, but it's acting up a little bit. But yeah, so I have all this stuff where I think, you know, I'm gonna push it away a little bit where I think it would make an interesting scene. So the downside to this is I have my little crosshair on that spot that I designated. If I zoom in, all of a sudden it's not there anymore. The crosshair is still on the same part of the screen but not on the same part of the canvas with Photoshop. So if there was a way around that, I'm not sure what it is, but you know, this is more for the drafting process than it is for the actual creating process, you know, the actual rendering and all that stuff. So just something to keep in mind. Anyway, so the actual nonsense that I want to show you—I'm gonna say nonsense, I mean amazing stuff—is that depending on what direction you're drawing, it's gonna draw the line in the exact correct perspective. So we have three directions here. All right, check this out. Look at that. It's exactly where it needs to be with the perspective that we designate. You can mess around with all these settings and it'll be absolutely perfect. It'll be totally correct. So you don't necessarily have to, like I said, you don't have to figure everything out. You could just create grids that you want to use. You don't—I mean, like, you can just grid out the entire thing and figure that later. But for me, I just find it like so interesting how quickly you can have a cityscape without really having to do a whole lot. And as long as you understand the basics of perspective, you can get a pretty awesome scene going pretty quickly. So, you know, might be a little boring with me not saying a whole lot right now, but I'm, you know, [expletive] entranced with this. This [expletive] look at this. [Expletive] this is black magic nonsense. I mean, maybe I've just been out of the loop for a long time because I know the new—hmm—the new iPad has some like perspective grids and stuff like that, so, you know, that's cool and everything. So maybe I'm just kind of out of the loop or whatever, but [expletive] man, this is [expletive] cool. Like, look at this nonsense. It's doing the work for it. It's in the totally correct, correct, Chris principal correct. But I can't [expletive] talk, man. I'm just got over the flu, so I'm a little, a little loopy. It's nonsense. This is just, it's amazing. I think I'm already using this in a lot of my drafting that I've been doing lately for other things. So already this is super interesting and it's quick, it's easy, and more importantly, it's correct. So not only does it look good, it's correct, which is always obviously very important. I'm saying right now, I'm just, I'm gonna [expletive] trance by this black magic. Look at this. Look at this. In five minutes, we have the cityscape drafted and we can, you know, just fight a man doing whatever the hell Spider-Man needs to be doing. So you could use this for four rooms, for city exteriors, interiors, whatever, whatever you gonna do. This is perfect for that. So this is two-point perspective, right? Because we have our horizon line and one horizon line going—I'm sorry, now horizon line. I can't—I think I came—think of the terminology. I'm gonna do a whole video on, you know, the principles of perspective at some point, so I will be sure to not have brain farts when I'm recording. I just really wanted to share this. This [expletive] is amazing. And yeah, in a manner, you can get super detailed. You know, you can make apartment buildings that put air conditioners hanging out inside. You can go crazy with this and it'll work. It'll work. So that's one. You could also do three-point perspective, which is pretty crazy because you can have this little vertical tilt here, right, which is your third point of perspective. Now it's absolutely crazy. So your third point is down here, and now it's—I don't know how well you can see it, but if we—now your vertical lines aren't perfectly vertical because you messed around with the settings for it. So now you can take full advantage of that and make three-point, yeah, perspective shots. It's crazy. This [expletive] is crazy. I feel like, I feel like I'm so old because I'm just like, oh, technology. And that was a little girl you used to ride the trolley and thank photos cost a nickel. Like, this is crazy. Look at this [expletive]. And when you shut it off and it's there, man. Yes, it is absolutely crazy. Wow. 01:14 Speaker A precise it's almost like Adobe Illustrator it's almost it's borderline vector nobody treats things so it's really really cool but that's not what I want to talk to you about today I want to talk about the perspective stuff that 01:28 Speaker A And for those of you who are saying, oh, that's cool, but like I like to do a lot of one-point perspective, well, guess what? You can do that too. Believe it's isometric. Is it isometric? Oh, now this is cool. Look at this. Look at this. You can have all crazy lines going in the same direction. I think these are the parallel lines thing over there. There was another one, one of the first things I had, radio lines. Yeah, okay, so this is one point. I'm sorry. Get your point to where you want it to be and then all of us up. Nope. And now every single line is gonna come from that same point. So this is cool for like a shot where someone's charging at the camera or straight-up perspective. Yeah, I mean, so let's say there—there's some easier ways sometimes to draft perspective grids and stuff like that. So I don't know how useful this is for one point, but I think it's pretty nifty. And again, I want to stress, don't use this as a crutch. Use it as a tool. You know what I mean? Like, you should have—you should learn how to do perspective the old-fashioned way first so that A, I guess, you'll have an appreciation for this, and B, you'll be able to use this a lot more effectively if you understand how perspective works. And again, that's something t— 01:46 Speaker A gonna help you if you don't already have a I mean okay let me it let me backtrack it can help you kind of learn a little bit about perspective but if you don't already know the basic principles of it 02:00 Speaker A this might not help you out too much so this specific one that I'm going to show you is two point and three point perspective drafting the downside into this is if you for example let's I'm gonna turn this off real quick let's create here's 02:18 Speaker A where our Verizon line is gonna be a slightly darker blue so let's create the horizon line already there and so you put this Center I guess crosshair is the best way to describe it and then you can adjust where your horizon lines are 02:44 Speaker A gonna be so I'm adjusting this red line over here to go a little further away and the green line to be a little bit closer I don't know why it's doing this I don't know if it's because we're just 02:57 Speaker A recording but it's acting up a little bit but yeah so I have all this stuff where I think you know I'm gonna push it away a little bit where I think it would make an interesting scene so the 03:11 Speaker A downside to this is I have my little crosshair on that that spot that I designated if i zoom in all of a sudden it's not there anymore the crosshair is still on the same part of the screen but 03:23 Speaker A not on the same part of the canvas with photoshop so if there was a way around that I'm not sure what it is but you know it's just this is more for the drafting process than it is for the 03:34 Speaker A actual creating process you know the actual rendering and all that stuff so just something to keep in mind anyway so the actual nonsense that I want to show you I'm gonna say nonsense I mean amazing stuff is that depending on what 03:49 Speaker A direction you're drawing it's gonna draw the line in the exact correct perspective so we have three directions here all right check this out look at that it's exactly where it needs to be with the perspective that we designate 04:09 Speaker A it you can you can mess around with all these settings and it'll be absolutely perfect it'll be totally correct so you don't necessarily have to like I said you don't have to figure everything out you could just create grids that you want to 04:25 Speaker A use you don't I mean like you can you can just grid out the entire thing and figure that later but for me I just find it like so interesting how quickly you can have a cityscape without really having to do a whole lot and as long as 04:39 Speaker A you understand the basics of perspective you can you can get a pretty awesome scene going pretty quickly so you know might be a little boring with me not saying a whole lot right now but I'm I'm you know [ \_\_ ] entranced with this this 04:57 Speaker A [ \_\_ ] look at this [ \_\_ ] this is black magic nonsense I mean maybe I've just been out of the loop for a long time because I know the new hmm the new iPad has some like perspective 05:18 Speaker A grids and stuff like that so you know that's that's cool and everything so maybe I'm just kind of out of a loop or whatever but [ \_\_ ] man this is [ \_\_ ] cool like look at this nonsense it's 05:30 Speaker A doing the work for it it's in the totally correct correct Chris pricipal correct but I can't [ \_\_ ] talk man I'm ty just got over the flu so I'm a little a little loopy it's nonsense this is just it's amazing I think I'm 05:48 Speaker A already using this in a lot of my drafting that I've been doing lately for other things so already this is super interesting and it's it's quick it's easy and more importantly it's correct so not only does it look good it's 06:14 Speaker A correct which is always obviously very important I'm saying right now I'm just I'm gonna [ \_\_ ] trance by this black magic look at this look at this in five minutes we have the city scape drafted and we can you know just fight a 06:37 Speaker A man doing whatever the hell spider-man needs to be doing so you could use this for four rooms for city's exteriors interiors whatever whatever you gonna do this is this is perfect for that so this is two point perspective right because 06:56 Speaker A we have our horizon line and one horizon line going I'm sorry now horizon line I can't I think it came think of the terminology I'm gonna do a whole video on you know the principles of perspective at some point so I will be 07:10 Speaker A sure to not have brain farts I'm gonna be recording I just really wanted to share this this [ \_\_ ] is amazing and yeah in a manner you can get super detailed you know you can make apartment buildings that put air conditioners 07:27 Speaker A hanging out inside you can go crazy with this and it'll work it'll work so that's one you could also do three-point perspective which is pretty crazy because you can have this little vertical tilt here right which is your 07:42 Speaker A third point of perspective now it's absolutely crazy so your your your Third Point is down here and now it's I don't know how well you can see it but if we now your vertical lines aren't perfectly vertical because you you messed around 08:04 Speaker A with the settings for it so now you can take full advantage of that and make Third Point yeah perspective shots it's crazy this [ \_\_ ] is crazy I feel like I feel like I'm so old because I'm just like oh technology 08:26 Speaker A and that was a little girl you used to ride the trolley and thank photos cost a nickel like this is crazy look at this [ \_\_ ] and when you shut it off and it's there man yes it is absolutely crazy Wow 08:44 Speaker A and for those of you who are saying oh that's cool but like I like to do a lot of one-point perspective well guess what you can do that too believe it's isometric is it isometric oh now this is cool look at this look at 09:09 Speaker A this you can have all all crazy lines going in the same direction I think these are the parallel lines thing over there there was another one one of the first things I had radio lines yeah okay so this is one point I'm sorry get your 09:32 Speaker A point to where you want it to be and then all of us up nope and now every single line is gonna come from that same point so this is cool for like a shot where someone's charging at the camera 09:53 Speaker A or straight up perspective yeah I mean so let's say there there's some easier ways sometimes to to drift perspective grades and stuff like that so I don't know how useful this is for one point but I think it's pretty nifty and again 10:14 Speaker A I want to stress don't use this as a crutch use it as a tool you know what I mean like you should have you should you should learn how to do perspective the old-fashioned way first so that a I 10:26 Speaker A guess you'll have an appreciation for this and B you'll you'll be able to use this a lot more effectively if you understand have a perspective perspective works and again that's something that I promise that I will help you guys out so now all of a sudden 10:40 Speaker A if you want to draw a room so there and there you I'm going with us and we you know inside of a cube or whatever a room in the correct perspective because of that cool this cool little law faints a 11:30 Speaker A little thing actually I probably should've just done that boob yep derp and you can do it as much as you want and that [ \_\_ ] will be in the exact correct perspective for one point pretty neat man pretty neat 12:02 Speaker A it's not perfect but it is pretty awesome definitely helpful all right just wanted to show you guys that little trick and I will see you guys soon Topics: Lazy Nezumi digital art perspective drafting photoshop plugin two-point perspective three-point perspective isometric drawing cityscape drawing art tools Joe Hogan Art Study this video - [Flashcards from this video](https://sozai.app/tools/ai-flashcard-generator/?from=transcript&id=80694) - [Quiz on 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